A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

Also I'm not going to ask you what words mean.

Although the programme asks the members only to drive students to and from their classes, Wilson often goes beyond to ensure the welfare and safety of the students.

And besides, he or she has seen many students stupider than you, so nothing you're gong to ask will set the record for stupidity.

And secondly, let me ask you to please look after your money.

As early as 1966, biologists asked the government to consider reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone park.

Ask about today's activities at the great hall information desk.

Asked if he needs help, he replies, \ no, thanks.\

Barbara has asked me to a party on new year's eve.

Before choices are finalised, parents/careers will be asked to.

But I will have to ask my friend first and we will come together.

But Naomi would have to ask Steve's permission.

Carol Harvey suggests that cyclists should be asked to ride on their own lanes.

Compliment (赞美) the other person to make him or her feel comfortable, and ask questions to show interest.

Dario's mother asked the building superintendent (管理员) if he knew anything about it.

Days later, we made an offer—far below the asking price.

During my first quarter, I spoke directly to the chancellor, asking him for support towards my initiatives, met with the vice chancellors.

Even when her daughter and son asked her to move to san antonio to help their children, she politely refused.

Great things happen when you step out of your comfort zone, and you would be surprised on how many chances exist if you just ask.

He asked Benjamin's parents if he might take the boy to Philadelphia for a visit.

He asked the workers to use traditional techniques to make the bricks into walls, roofs and corridors.

He was trying to pronounce my husband's name and was asking him a lot of questions.

How would you like it if you were watching your favorite TV program and someong came into the room and just shut it off without asking you?

I am not going to ask you questions to find out whether you understand the books or not.

I asked around and found out that my mum was very well known in the area.

I asked them what they'd seen.

I carried it to the vet's, and was asked to make payment immediately.

I usually got pretty upset and kept asking him why.

I was walking across altrincham road one morning when a cyclist went round me and on being asked what he was doing he shouted at me.

If more information is needed, they will ask.

If we go somewhere and I ask him to leave the phone at home, he suffers from withdrawal symptoms.

If you're meeting with the professor to go over a paper or test, or to ask questions about a particular lecture or reading, make sure you bring that paper or test, or your lecture notes or a copy of the article.

Imagine a child standing on a diving board four feet high and asking himself the question: Should I jump?

In that case, ask to speak in person as soon as possible and say sorry.

In the store, I asked each of my kids to pick something they thought our \friend\ there would appreciate.

It also asked mothers about the challenges they face, with 80 percent making emotional demand as the hardest thing about motherhood.

It was also much more than we could afford, but far less than the original asking price.

Jenkins, and ask if you can hand it in on Friday morning?

Keep the talk going by making compliments and asking questions.

No, but if you like, I can ask around or Joan might want to go.

Oh, may I ask for a wake-up call, please?

One group was asked to seek out an interaction with its waiter; the other, to speak only when necessary.

One of my suggestions is to always ask for help.

Other organisations such as banks ask customers to sign long contracts they may not read or understand, but Miller believes social media requires special attention because it is so new.

Perhaps you should ask them to get it fixed in just one or two days.

She asked her mother why he did that and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry.

She asked me whether I had returned the books to the library, and I admitted that I hadn't.

She asks me how I'm doing.

She had asked the government for permission to move the books to a safe place, but they refused.

Since his regular job was boring, I asked him why he just didn't do his sideline full-time.

Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes.

Tell the person you're sorry and explain that you have a million things to do and then ask if the two of you can talk at a different time.

That year, I attended a seminar where we were asked to create a project that would touch the world.

The late musician Dennis brian is said to have asked a fellow train passengers to turn off his radio.

The reason why the ponies here are naughty is that Haytor is a tourist-heavy area and tourists are constantly feeding the ponies foods, despite signs asking them not to.

Then I asked him if he had cut down the amount of feed he had given the chickens.

Then students were asked to predict what kind of relationship they were likely to build with their partners.

Then, Larry asked the police if he was needed or free to go.

Then, one day, the phone rang and Steve Tregear, the Coastguard of Cornwall, asked holder if he would like his dog bark.

There was a time when people may have felt awkward about asking for a table for one, but those days are over.

There, he had to ask at some challenge different stores or restaurants before finding food.

These comments came in response to specific questions often asked by local newsmen.

This is why there is a saying that if you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.

To get good and useful results, ask them the same question.

Tom is so independent that he never asks his parents' opinion unless he wants their support.

Unlike authoritarian management, some cultures, particularly in asia, are well known for the consultative nature of decision-making—all members of the department or work group are asked to contribute to this process.

We ask that you let us know of any allergies or dietary requirements as well as information about any medicines you take.

We can do this in real life or ask questions about characters in stories.

We could probably just walk by the lake, and I'll ask mike to join us.

Whaley got the idea of this second-grade presidential campaign project when he asked the children one day to raise their hands if they thought they could never be a president.

When I ask him to please put down the phone and stop ignoring me, he says, \In a minute,\ but still checks to see if someone has posted something new on the Internet.

When my son gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to work, I bought twenty chickens and asked him to take care of them.

When the music finished, I asked them all to raise their heads slowly so that we could share our musical journeys.

While we were eating, Kurt asked me, \ John, what is your plan for personal growth?\

Years ago, I was asked to write 102 essays on the great ideas of some famous authors.

You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks.

You can tell when you are over the top and on the downward slope, by asking yourself a number of questions.

You find it whenever people ask how you're doing because they care, and not because they're getting paid to do so.

However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

Could he help explain her experiences?McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day.

Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work.

A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon ( ' , 追随一种管理潮流), it is time to ask questions.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

If we humans aren't quite sure about a decision, we go and ask somebody else.

If the robot is unsure whether an animal is suitable for the microwave, it has the opportunity to stop, send out beeps ( ' , 嘟嘟声 ), and ask for directions from a human.

Stan Glantz, a professor of medicine in San Francisco,explains why: And you know, one thing that I wanted to ask you.

In any case, new graduate students can learn who their advisers or temporary advisers are by visiting or emailing the departmental office and asking for the information.

When employees log in to their computers, they're shown a picture of one of their coworkers and asked to guess that person's name.

To enhance morale, one company asks its employees to identify their fellow workers when starting their computers.

Support Bill Perry's pub, and any other bar or restaurant that doesn't ask you to do drunken math.

At the beginning of seventh grade, we assessed the students' mind-sets by asking them to agree or disagree with statements such as Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't really change.

No one is asking you to give up activities you like, but if you're watching food shows on TV, try cooking instead.

Ask yourself, Would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.

They asked, Was it as good as American beef? It was very exciting for me to be on Japanese TV, speaking in Japanese about how delicious the beef was.

Once, just after I returned from my year in Vienna, I was asked to translate for a German judge at an Olympiclevel horse event.

In Japan,once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared and tell what I thought.

I have been bothered for a long time about the curious lack of curiosity,said a Democratic member of the New Jersey legislature back in July, referring to an insufficiently inquiring attitude on the part of an assistant to New Jersey Governor Chris Chri

A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon (追随—种管理潮流), it is time to ask questions.

A quantitative- based one, for example, is unlikely to be sent home, where one could ask their older brothers and sisters to help.

But I ask my father if he texted messages, and guess what he said?

I just want to ask them one question, so it's much easier for me just to text message.

I think it will be very interesting to see what etiquette (礼仪) emerges in terms of whether you tell people you have a camera or not, and whether guests have a right to ask that it be tuned off, if it's not a security issue.

If the robot is unsure whether an animal is suitable for the microwave, it has the opportunity to stop, send out beeps, and ask for directions from a human.

McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day.

Support bill Perry's pub, and any other bar or restaurant that doesn't ask you to do drunken math.

They are already on California roads, so it is not too soon to ask whether we can program a machine to act ethically.

They should ask questions at crucial moments.

Today's psychology texts, for example, ask: How much of your personality do you think you inherited?

I'd much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions, she says.

Do you know who we have to beat? asked Saul.

I asked what impression she wanted to make on the jury.

When we ask teens to choose a hero, they usually select an older family member rather than a remote public figure.

If this is not happening today, we should ask why.

But don't bother asking for evidence that justifies this bleak view.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

Is there really a magic memory pill or a herbal recall remedy? I have been frequently asked if these memory supplements work.

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

With little else to go on, they were asked to estimate Mr.Williams's salary, professional standing, and educational background.

We found that when we taught participants to ask What if? and How can? questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit − asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better inter pretations of their results.

They asked both groups to generate questions about important issues needed to create recovery plans.

The researchers asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to protect bald eagles from extinction.

The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking.

Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question.

How do we convince our inner caveman to be greener? We ask some outstanding social scientists.

At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied how learning to ask good questions can affect the quality of people's scientific inquiry.

Asking juicy questions appears to be a transferable skill for deepening collaborative inquiry into the science content found in exhibits.

\I'd much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions,\ she says.

\I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it,\ Hacker says. \All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road

\Sometimes it goes wrong, but most of the time it doesn't, \ says Swanson, who recommends starting to ask children permission to post narratives or photos around ages 6 to 8.

All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road to calculus.

As the great trumpet player, Louis Armstrong said, if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Ask your pharmacist whether he can suggest a drug that will relieve the symptoms but that will not cause the adverse reaction.

It never occurred to me that I should ask his permission to post photos of him online.

It requires a willingness to ask new questions and try new approaches.

It's funny you ask that because I never have this moment when I feel, \Ah, I've finished!\ I watch footballers at the end of the match, you know, the whistle goes and they've won or lost.

Louis Armstrong said, if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Once armed with a method for gaining access to iPhones, the government could ask to use it proactively, before a suspected terrorist attack—leaving Apple in a bind as to whether to comply or risk an attack and suffer a public-relations nightmare.

That's what I wanted to ask you about.

The size of the loan I ask for, or the type of business I propose.

They just ask for one questionnaire to be sent out, for example, so the time you spend on an ad-hoc project tends to be fairly short.

Those are the questions we need to ask ourselves, and everyone can have a different answer.

We can ask our kids to help us learn as a society what's okay and what's not.

We’re big advocates of bodily autonomy and not forcing him to hug or kiss people unless he wants to, but it never occurred to me that I should ask his permission to post photos of him online.

Were big advocates of bodily autonomy and not forcing him to hug or kiss people unless he wants to, but it never occurred to me that I should ask his permission to post photos of him online.

When taking any drug, you should ask your doctor whether drinking alcohol could be dangerous in combination with the medicine.

When you ask people about their concept of stereotypes, they get it pretty much right.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn't need a cure.

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

Yet its report may well set back reform by obscuring the depth and breadth of the challenge that Congress asked it to illuminate.

In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by “federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others” to “maintain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education”.

Ask anyone newly unemployed what they want and the answer is always: a job.

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived.

Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.

California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.

If you’re not sure, ask for honest feedback from trusted friends, colleagues and professionals.

After the first installment, Dickens wrote to the artist and asked him to correct a drawing Dickens felt was not faithful enough to his prose.

Further arrangements- and there may be many-between the NHS and DeepMind will be carefully scrutinised to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned.

A young man can decide on a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to arrange the marriage negotiations, or the young man's parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

If you're not sure, ask for honest feedback from trusted friends, colleagues and professionals.

Imagine you are pouring your heart out to someone and they are just busy on their phone, and if you ask for their attention you get the response \I can multitask\.

Next time you state your position, formulate an argument for what you claim and honestly ask yourself whether your argument is any good.

Next time you talk with someone who takes a stand, ask them to give you a reason for their view.

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived.

So don't be afraid to ask more personal questions.

The tester would ask, \What's in here? \before looking into the container, smiling, and exclaiming, \Wow!\

Trust me, you'll be surprised to see how much people are willing to share if you just ask.